. I don't think the Dems realized what terrible candidates both of them were, though, but they still thought they had enough in the tank to get them ver the finish line so they could continue to break the country from the inside while enriching themselves.
The Elites knew how bad she was, They NEVER wanted her. The evidence points to Pelosi, Schumer and Obama all wanting a primary instead of Biden or especially Kamala running. IIRC Biden was supposed to be a transitory president and said as such. The Democratic Elites knew his mental faculties were declining from the start and Pelosi, Schumer and Obama all started pressuring him to drop out and endorse a primary since the very beginning of the election year. When Biden shocked them by refusing to step down, the various Democrats factions enacted some semblance of a plan put to oust Biden and produce a
blitz primary (a Kiwi pointed this out after the debate and its eerily similar to Kamala's campaign. Especially Oprah's prominence) while increasing pressure on him to quit.
The Elites worked with CNN to give Trump the cleanest debate he ever had, and knowing Biden would lose and already had the legacy media prepped to bury him, hence the pre-drafted NYT article placing doubt on him that released 30 minutes into the debate and The View and other talking heads doubting him that night and the morning after. It was only a wake up call for rest of the Democrat plebs. When Biden still refused, they gave him the coup de grace and had one of his aides announce his resignation via Twitter without the rest of his administration knowing.
What they didn't know was that Kamala was Biden's useful idiot, not theirs. Biden chose Kamala on purpose because she was the weakest, least influential, least popular and least experienced VP picks that he was given. Even
Willie Brown had
no faith in her as VP due to her inexperience. (I had a more damning secondary source, but this clip works.) It's also no secret that his admin hated her and her admin since the very beginning. We thought she was forced on him, but she was his fail safe in case they wouldn't let him run.
Biden knew she wasn't going to win, that's why he ENDORSED her out of spite after the twitter fiasco. They were both supposed to agree to a primary which is why the democrats started haphazardly scrambling to rally behind her and why Obama took so long to endorse her. He still wanted the primary, but I suspect Michele actually likes Kamala and wanted her to win.
Edit: Added clip link and fixed minor errors.
